A Horizon Bible Study goes something like this…
Once upon there was a mountain. It was in a forest. This woman, Jane of the Forest, knew all about the forest. She lived there and felt at home there. She also knew the mountain pretty well. One day she decided to go up the mountain because, well she never had before.
Jane of the Forest started to climb the mountain and before long she was at eye level with the canopy of the trees of the forest. She was amazed at the animals living in the trees. She saw all sorts of animals she had never seen before so she studied them and named them and got to know them.
As she was watching the animals in the canopy of the trees she looked at the side of the mountain and noticed a little house. This guy, Tarzan of the Forest, had made a little home on the side of the mountain in the canopy of the trees. He and Jane met and talked about the animals in the trees and Tarzan was able to point out all sorts of things she never saw when she looked at the animals…and the trees for that matter. Well Jane was able to tell Tarzan all about the forest floor. He didn’t even know there was such a thing.
After spending time discovering a little more about the place that both Jane and Tarzan called home they decided to go up the mountain further. To their surprise, they discovered there was not a forest but that there was a beautiful forest and a wonderful river. Jane and Tarzan found many more hikers along the way that had made their home at different places on the mountain and discovered many new things about the home they thought they knew so well.
As the community of hikers, including Jane and Tarzan, climbed the mountain together their horizons began to expand. They knew so many more specifics about their home than they ever did before. No one ever reached the top of the mountain though. It seems it went on forever but they grew closer to each other and to their home. And they journeyed happily ever after.
Tom Lynch
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